Re: [Cscope-devel] Some patches for cscope

[Roberto E. V. C. <k0...@sh...>]

> Actually you don't need to change the code at all to get that
> effect. CSCOPE_EDITOR exists, and does what you want to use VISUAL
> for.

VISUAL is a standard variable and is used by all Unix programs. If I
have to define a new variable for each program I use then I will define
dozens of them. You can take a look about VISUAL-EDITOR in these pages:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch10s04.html#id2942810
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Environment_Variables
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?more
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables


> >Patch 0003: This patch adds a way of filtering the results in finddef function,
> >	    since we have information about the kind of symbol. I have add
> >	    a solution which doesn't increment the number of options in the
> >	    graphical interface (it is already big), and it is basically
> >	    add the kind of definition in the search pattern. I don't have
> >	    modified the manual page, because I don't know if this change
> >	    will be good for you.
> 
> I'm tending to reject this, on the basis of it modifying more than
> it really should. The character '@' isn't quite as forbidden to
> appear in search patterns as you might think.  Many people are using
> cscope on untopical input.  Those would hate us for making @
> unusable in searches.


Uhmmmm, it's true. I usually use cscope for c programs, but it is
possible to use it in other very different ways. I think this funcionality
is great, because there is a lot of information in the cscope index
that can be very usueful to the users, and define a new menu option
for each of them is no a way. Maybe the solution is looking for a
less intrusive way of defining the type of search, or defining a
escape character or something like this.

Best regards,

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Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
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